Security Engineer I Job Listing at First Data in Bad Vilbel

Finance

Candidate will be performing key management tasks, participate in application and data protection projects of FD, define and document key management organization processes, communicate with external and internal customers in area of key management, participate in cryptography and information security related projects within EMEA and support key generation and administration.

Candidate will be responsible for governance, identification of non-compliances and their remediation, and oversight of the conduct of key administration daily routine operations by other teams, managing risks associated with cryptographic key management processes, application and data protection.

Candidates will be responsible for supporting audit and compliance reviews conducted by external auditors and also internally.

Job Specific Responsibilities

Candidate Requirements

All candidates must possess sound understanding understanding of information security, information risk management and cryptography. Hands on technical experience with HSMs, application protection technologies, and understanding of payment systems are an advantage.

Good working knowledge of MS Office, including MS Visio is required, experience with documenting processes is required.

Succesfull candidate must have effective oral and written communication skills in English is required. Capability of good communication skills for dealing with internal and external clients, various payment industry organizations and auditors is required.

Candidates must be detailed oriented, extremely well organized, and have the ability and desire to accept the challenges of performing detailed technical information security work on a full time basis. Candidates must have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that is highly deadline driven in order to meet aggressive business processing requirements. Candidates must be flexible to occasionally work off hours and weekends, if needed to complete work that is tied to meeting significant business objectives. This is a growth position -- candidates must be fast learners and will have the opportunity to develope their information security skills, project management and process documenting. English language proficiency required.

Travel across First Data Corporation EMEA locations is required.

Business Segment Overview

First Data’s Global Operations and Technology division closely integrates operations, technology and product development to make sure we have the right platforms in place today and into the future to meet the ever changing demands of our partners. With nearly 17,000 employees OT makes sure we offer the security, reliability, speed, and simplicity that our customers look for in a processing provider.

OT is a large organization touching nearly every aspect of First Data service delivery, including; product development; client project delivery; infrastructure operations; global service delivery; information services, strategic sourcing, and enterprise security, risk and compliance into a single end-to-end organization.

About

First Data is a leading provider of payment solutions for financial institutions and merchants around the world. With over 42 Billion merchant transactions annually and nearly 750 Million credit/debit cards on file, First Data powers the payments value chain in over 80 countries across the globe. We are proud of our extensive customer relationships supporting over 7,000 financial institutions and the largest merchant distribution network in the industry with over 1,200 partners servicing merchants large and small.

Our 25,000 employees are industry experts helping businesses simplify payment processing and improve the customer experience with our broad portfolio of solutions, including: Credit and Debit card issuing and acquiring, STAR® PIN-Debit Network, Point of Sale Terminals and deployment services via our subsidiary, TASQ Technology, Gift Card and Loyalty Solutions, TeleCheck® Electronic Check Acceptance Services, MoneyNetwork® Payroll Distribution, eCommerce and online banking solutions, world-class security services like our new TransArmorsm STAR® CertiflashSM Solutions, and more.

First Data. Beyond the Transaction.